FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Business Press has singled out Ruth Ann Kearley, president of full-service advertising, public relations and branding agency Kearley & Company, as one of the area's Great Women of Texas.

For the past ten years Fort Worth Business Press has been honoring area women for their contributions and successes in business and in the community.

An area native and former Miss Teen Fort Worth, Kearley's credit union roots run deep as she successfully developed one of the first marketing departments for a credit union in the state of Texas in the early 1970′s while working for EECU. She left the credit union as vice president of marketing in 1981 to launch her own agency–Kearley & Company.